| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - By Blackstone's classic definition, the offense was the violently depriving another of the use of such of his members as may render him the less able in fighting, either to defend himself, or to annoy his adversary.6 Thus mayhem included the cutting off, or disabling, or weakening a man's hand or finger, or striking out his eye or foretooth, or depriving him of those parts the loss of which in
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